Hello all, I just got admitted to USC, and I'm trying to find a good housing complex that I will like. Can you please give me a brief stereotype, if there is any, of Birnkrant RC, Cardinal Gardens, Fluor Tower, Marks Hall, Internatonal RC, Marks Tower, New RC, North RC, Pardee, Trojan Hall, and Webb Tower? Thanks.

Agreed with all of this, but let me add that Marks Hall and Trojan Hall are technically "honors" dorms. So they are about half honors students, half people who didn't fill out their housing app on time.

Birnkrant: Where I lived two years ago, wasn't an honors dorm then but it is now. I had a GREAT group of people on my floor, and from I've heard, it still has that rep. I still hang out with people from my floor and six of us joined the same fraternity. Good mix of fun and study.

New/North: Both are connected so there isn't a distinction. This is the party dorm, a lot of people go Greek, you'll have a ton of fun if that's your thing, but if you are the type to study all the time, this isn't for you for the most part.

Fluor: Suite-style (I believe with air conditioning?), so very dependent on your suitemates. Haven't heard any complaints from people I know who lived there.

Gonna group Marks Hall/Tower, Trojan, and Pardee together: Kinda the "average" - a lot of cool people live there but not as fun as BK or N/N. No mixed-gender floors if memory serves, which is what BK and N/N have going for them.

Parkside: Very quiet. Lots of engineers. Much newer, with AC in dorms, and the better dining hall.

CarGar and Webb are apartments, I think they're mostly only open to sophomores and above. Both are pretty similar except for Webb being on-campus and CarGar being off-campus.

Just from personal experience I was in Parkside apartments, but was also a spring admit, so that could have a lot to do with the fact that I met no one. So if anything I would avoid parkside apartments as I met very few people there. Not so sure about A&H or IRC

It's been amazing, really irreplaceable. I would recommend you at least go rush - at the very least, you get to do some cool stuff on a house's dollar. If you like people you meet, give it a try. There are 19 fraternities, so you really have all sorts of people.